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<B>Anne Wilson</B>
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<I>Mon Apr 16 16:15:34 CEST 2012</I>
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On 16/04/12 14:41, Colin Guthrie wrote:
><i> 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 16/04/12 14:34 did gyre and
</I>><i> gimble:
</I>>><i> BTW why not displaying a message "switch to tty2 for a login"?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> In the normal case of X or prefdm.service failing, this is exactly
</I>><i> what happens (it's actually a message saying "your graphical login
</I>><i> is broken blah blah, press any key to switch to multi-user.target
</I>><i> (aka runlevel 3".
</I>><i>
</I>><i> This case is different (if I'm correct in my assumption). The fact
</I>><i> is that the non-lsb legacy initscripts impose a very, very strict
</I>><i> ordering on startup (based on their priority numbers in
</I>><i> /etc/rcX.d/S??foo filenames).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> This strict order is typically full of loops (a -> b -> c -> a),
</I>><i> so somthing has to give. In order to do that systemd will delete
</I>><i> jobs to break the loop. Frequently this job turns out to be "the
</I>><i> prefdm.server start job". When this happens we simply don't know
</I>><i> that things are failing in order ot display the error message
</I>><i> (likewise, if we added a totally separate unit for this it too
</I>><i> could be deleted by these jobs).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Ultimately the correctly solution is to provide native systemd or
</I>><i> LSB-compliant sysvinit scripts.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I've fixed a couple and have previously linked a spreadsheet where
</I>><i> everyone can help out and track progress etc.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Col
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</I>Will the development team gain anything from this thread? If not, I'm
tempted to try a fresh installation, but if there is gain I will
continue to fight it.
Anne
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